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Title: Ocean currents measured by Shipboard Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (SADCP) from global oceans as part of the Joint Archive for SADCP holdings from 20 August 1999 to 13 May 2009 (NODC Accession 0067774)
Abstract: Absolute U- and V-component ocean current vectors from Shipboard Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (SADCP), as both a high-frequency sampling (nominally 5 minutes with 8 m depth bins) and an averaged subset (hourly time and 10 m depth means), are provided for the global oceans. The depth range is typically from 20 to 300 m although recent technology has allowed penetration to over 1 km. The high frequency samples along with ancillary parameters are provided in the Common Oceanographic Data Access System (CODAS) binary format. The standard (averaged) subset is stored in ASCII. These data, collected from 20 August 1999 to 13 May 2009, represent the cruises acquired from January 2009 through September 2010 at the Joint Archive for SADCP, a collaboration of NOAA and the E.Firing ADCP Laboratory at the University of Hawaii. The data have been contributed by both US and international organizations. A total of 251 unique SADCP sets on 16 ships (2.7 gigabytes) are included.
Date received: 20141212
Start date: 19990820
End date: 20090513
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West boundary: 129.402
East boundary: 115.5922
North boundary: 77.7809
South boundary: -78.5447
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Submitter: Caldwell, Mr. Patrick
Submitting institution: US DOC; NOAA; NESDIS; National Oceanographic Data Center
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Number of observations: 251
Supplementary information: In this accession, NCEI has archived multiple versions of these data. The latest (and best) version of these data has the largest version number.
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Metadata version: 9
Keydate: 2010-10-12 19:05:01+00
Editdate: 2016-07-27 13:07:14+00